Theatre trip.

We seemed to get going a bit earlier than usual today (still late compared to school-y folks, but early for us).  At the girls' request I finished reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer to them, and immediately afterwards we started reading one of the library books we'd got out to put Tom Sawyer into its historical context, called The Abolition of Slavery 1863.

After an early lunch we headed into town for the theatre trip that I'd organised to see Tom's Midnight Garden.  It's a pretty straightforward sort of thing to organise, because making a group booking you don't have to pay immediately, so can gather money in before finalising numbers, but I do get stressed on the day until everyone has turned up!  We really enjoyed the play and agreed that it was a good adaptation of the story, which we read a couple of months ago.

The poster outside.

The set.

After picking up a poster from A's office for him, we came home via a cafe for a hot chocolate and cake treat.  Once home M disappeared to carry on reading the Charlie Bone book she's currently got on the go (number 5 of 8 I think) and K & I had a game of Rummikub and after tea M joined in for another round while we were waiting for A to get home.  Since he left home early on Tuesday for Amsterdam, got back about midnight last night and then left for work including a trip to London before the girls were up, they haven't seen him since Monday.  We haven't got him home for long, as he's leaving for a short trip to Paris on Sunday morning and won't be home until after the girls are asleep on Tuesday.